Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly a thousand undergraduates are preparing to give up a considerable position of their time and energy to prepare themselves for the service of their country against the time when they shall be called into action. Theirs is no slight sacrifice. They gladly accept the discipline and tedium of drilling and extra study to take advantage of the opportunities the College has placed before them--in the person of Captain Amann and others--to learn the art of war. And we justly admire the spirit and sense of duty which leads them to do this...
...unofficial statements of Generals Wood, Edwards, Hoyle, Johnson, and McCain, and Secretary Baker, but also by the attitude of the Government towards the men who completed the course. In spite of the fact that the general rule for the examining boards of the Second Officers' Training Camps was to accept no men under 31 years of age, a special order from the Adjutant General to these boards required that serious consideration be given to all R. O. T. C. applicants for admission; the result was that all members of the Corps who applied and who were physically fit and older...
There are many men who regret the President's decision not to accept, under the authority granted him by Congress, Mr. Roosevelt's offer of a volunteer force for immediate service in France. There are many men who see in such decision the wisest and the most helpful course...
Complications have arisen which will make it difficult to accept many new men in the University Training Corps after the various New England colleges close, it was announced at the Military Office yesterday evening. Recruits, however, may be accepted in August at the end of the first three-months' camp, if the Corps continues after that time, as is now planned. At present, until the enlistment office is closed at the end of the week, recruits from the University or other New England colleges will be enrolled...
...training of officers there is a serious responsibility ahead of them. So many have gone to Plattsburg camps during the last few years for a pleasant summer outing that there is some danger that they will regard the next three months' instruction in the same light. When once accepted by the commanding officer of one of these camps, a man agrees to report at any camp signified and to accept any commission in the new army which is to be formed in the fall. The present conflict will not be decided in a short month or two. The young...